AAAS 2023 Book Award Winners February 21, 2023 The AAAS Book Awards Committee and its panel of jurors has officially completed the 2023 book awards cycle. Many thanks to the AAAS staff for facilitating the nomination process and publicity, and to our exemplary judges who reviewed dozens of submissions within a 5-month period. The AAAS Book Awards are only possible through the active participation and volunteerism of members, as well as presses and authors. The AAAS Book Awards is an opportunity for a book to be publicly recognized as exceptional and deserving of special recognition. It’s also a process that allows our association to deeply appreciate the years of research, writing, analyzing, and theorizing infused in the projects represented. The books nominated prove the vibrancy of Asian American studies scholarship and writing, and the field’s indispensable contribution to understandings of everyday survival, world-historic change, planetary struggle, axes of solidarity, and much more. To all those nominated: Thank you for the work and giving the process such depth. To the awardees: Congratulations and we look forward to highlighting your book in Long Beach! Jan Padios (Chair)Falu BakraniaFrancis Tanglao AguasMichelle Dinh Creative Writing: Poetry OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Susan Nguyen, Dear Diaspora (Nebraska) Creative Writing: Prose OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Eugene Lim, Search History (Coffee House) HONORABLE MENTION — Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay (Coffee House) Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Lily Cho, Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens (McGill-Queens) HONORABLE MENTION — Neel Ahuja, Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century (University of North Carolina) HONORABLE MENTION — Ma Vang, History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies (Duke University Press) History OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Eric C. Wat, Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (University of Washington) HONORABLE MENTION — Anna Pegler-Gordon, Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island (University of North Carolina) HONORABLE MENTION — Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Empire′s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper (Duke) Media, Performance, and Visual Studies OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Việt Lê, Return Engagements: Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in Sai Gon and Phnom Penh (Duke) HONORABLE MENTION — Hentyle Yapp, Minor China: Methods, Materialism, and the Aesthetic (Duke) Literary Studies OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Erin Suzuki, Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Temple) HONORABLE MENTION — David Roh, Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions (Stanford) Social Sciences OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT — Nadia Kim, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA (Stanford) HONORABLE MENTION — Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam (Duke)
07-07-2023 Journal of Asian American Studies Letter on Professor Naoko Shibusawa’s Article Originally sent in December of 2022 Brown University: We write as Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS). One of the authors in Read More
05-15-2023 Reduced Conference Fees and Fully Subsided Registrations for Contingent Faculty & Graduate Students As part of our ongoing efforts to increase access to our annual conference, the Board is proud to announce major changes in its approach to Read More
02-13-2023 AAAS Statement in Defense and Support of AP African American Studies We write as educators and community members in defense and support of an AP African American Studies that reflects the intellectual project of Black studies. Read More
